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[deanablack]

Hi,

I am starting to offer writing personalised poems and stories for anyone who wants to gift them to their loved ones.

I have written personalised stories before and I will gladly share links to those who want to read them before deciding anything. I can do different genres and themes based on your demands.

Here is a novella with four personalised stories.

If you know a reader and want to gift them a unique experience, this will make for a great gift :)

I require whatever help I can have financially so each reblog helps!

[bookstimesinfinity]

Please share and amplify

[thoughtkick]

“I knew that what was left of me would always love you, but never in quite the same way.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

[thoughtkick]

“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not even loss. You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day you are going to find yourself again.”

— Finn Butler, From The Wreckage

[bookstimesinfinity]

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.

-David Levithan, Every Day

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What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? I suddenly realize why people believe in déjà vu, why people believe they’ve lived past lives, because there is no way the years I’ve spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I’m feeling. The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearranging themselves so that this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

-David Levithan, Every Day

[quotespile]

“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[quotespile]

“If our elected representatives have contempt for us, if the forces of so-called law and order likewise hold us in contempt, it’s because they think we have no recourse, and no power, except for the one force they have long assumed too splintered, too divided and too forgotten to be of any use: the power of the people.”

— Zadie Smith, Intimations

[resqectable]

“You don’t find love, it finds you. It’s got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what’s written in the stars.”

— Anaïs Nin

[resqectable]

“When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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His grip is solid, his touch is soft. He is everything she needs.

-Cecelia Ahern, Paper Heart

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I just think... if it hurts this much now, then I must have been pretty darn lucky.

-Nikki Erlick, The Poppy Fields

[thirdity]

“What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What “grace” might have enlightened me, except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?”

— Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes

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[quotespile]

“Life is like an extremely demanding testing ground. From now on everything you do will count, every thought and every deed, but not for you to be punished or rewarded afterward, but because it is they that build your world.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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You need to be with someone who is choosing you out of everyone else in the world.

-Adam Silvera, Infinity Kings

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“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”

— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

[thoughtkick]

“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work with these stories; water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés